Goal Setting
Setting and achieving health goals can be challenging, especially if you’re unsure where to start or have tried and failed in the past. Goal setting can provide direction, increase motivation, and better your chances of success.
Why Goal Setting Matters
- Provides Focus: Clearly defined goals help you understand what you want to achieve and how to get there.
- Increases Motivation: Goals give you something to work towards, keeping you motivated and engaged.
- Tracks Progress: Setting goals allows you to track your progress and make adjustments as needed.
In our goal setting session, we make setting and achieving goals easy and achievable by:
- Identifying What Is Important to You: Understand your values and priorities to set meaningful goals.
- Understanding Physical and Emotional Needs: Identify what you need to aim for in your health journey.
And Most Importantly:
- Learning Tools for Breaking Long-Term Goals Down into Small, Achievable, and Sustainable Steps: Start with small changes that can lead to big health improvements over time.
Tiny Habit Suggestions
Tiny habits are a behaviour change that focus on creating small, easy-to-implement habits that can lead to significant long-term changes in behaviour. Below we have made some suggestions you may like to try.
- Tiny Habit 1: Start with One Small Change Focus on making one small change at a time, such as drinking an extra glass of water each day or walking for 10 minutes after lunch.
- Tiny Habit 2: Use a Habit Tracker Keep a simple habit tracker to monitor your daily actions and stay accountable to your goals.
- Tiny Habit 3: Reflect on Progress Weekly Spend a few minutes each week reflecting on your progress and celebrating your successes, no matter how small.
- Tiny Habit 4: Find an Accountability Partner Share your goals with a friend or family member who can support and encourage you along the way.
Further Information:
This section is under development
Find the next drop-in session in Frome on this topic HERE or contact your local Health Connections team to refer yourself to one of our Mendip wide Healthy Lifestyles groups.
- Our Recommended Online Resources
- Our Recommended Goal Setting webpages
- Link to NHS webpages
- Our Recommended Goal Setting Apps
- Link to apps for topic